The fourth edition of Theme Thursday has arrived, a weekly column that covers some of the best theme releases for Winterboard to date. This week’s roundup continues to focus on iPhone and iPod touch themes, although many are designed for the iPad as well. Moreover, after listening to your feedback for the last three weeks, we have plans to publish an iPad theme roundup in the near future.

This week, we highlight the following themes: Jaku, Slab and Redsgn 2.0. To get the reflective dock used in the screenshots, download ClassicDock. I am also using a custom font called Cartogothic Std that is applied using BytaFont. In this edition of Theme Thursday, I provide a combination of stock images from the designers alongside my own screenshots. Take a look…

Redsgn 2.0

We’ve seen our fair share of themes with flat icons overlaid with white glyphs, but Redsgn 2.0 places itself ahead of the pack with an impressive 400 custom icons. I have nearly five full pages of apps, and only about a dozen or so still have stock icons.

There are five icon masks that come bundled with the theme, configurable through Winterboard: squared, squircle, round, ring and corners. Each looks great. Best of all, Redsgn 2.0 is free on Cydia in the ModMyi repo for iPhone and iPod touch. An iPad version is coming soon.

Jaku

I am a big fan of Vancouver-based interaction designer William Szilveszter, the creative brainchild behind Jaku. While I think that its design is more suitable for iOS 6 and earlier, the theme remains one of the best available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Each icon is so intrinsically detailed and precise. It’s quite incredible.

Perhaps what makes Jaku so great is the tremendous support it has received over the years. As a testament to how strong the theming community is, Jaku has hundreds if not thousands of custom icons available through a dedicated repository. The theme certainly lives up to its $2.99 price tag on Cydia in the MacCiti repo. A separate iPad version is available.

Slab

Christopher Wang has just released an update for Slab, a well-designed theme with custom icons that are colorful with countered edges for added depth. This theme has a respectable 100 custom icons, and Wang is currently accepting requests for additional ones. The icons have a rounded appearance with bright edges that looks quite nice. Slab is one dollar on the Cydia Store.

This week wasn’t a particularly busy one in terms of themes, but February 21st marks the much-anticipated release of graphic designer Surenix’s new theme called Ayeris. He is perhaps best known as the creator of Ayecon, a theme that Jeff gave a rave review for just recently. As always, be sure to leave your theme recommendations in the comments section for next week.

If you are a theme designer yourself, and would like to have your work featured in this column, gift your package to Cydia ID 6107077 and reach out to me on Twitter (@rsgnl) to connect. I cannot guarantee coverage of all themes that come across my desk, but I may include your work in a future roundup. Your theme might not be featured for a few weeks or longer, so please be patient.

me too feel bad that u are still stuck behind at iOS 6. what are u using? the iPhone 3?

Alberto Espinal

IOS 6 can’t even touch IOS 7, there are tweaks that don’t even need a respring to work, like “Fancy, Night Mode, etc, etc” you don’t even know what you talking about, stay in the past my friend because i love the future!!

Jonathan

I have to admit Joe, this is one of my favorite posts that you do. =)

U Kn0w What 1t 1s

Jaku is my favorite theme! I’m so happy it has finally been featured!

Ex Deus

Jaku doesn’t use icon masks so it doesn’t theme icons that doesn’t have a specifically made icon for it and therefore it suck.

I wanted to get Jaku for my iOS 6 but he went and made the update of Jaku > iOS 7 dependency so now you can’t get it 🙁

ProMode

Look at this

Dirty Harry

What theme is this?

Richard

Sublimi7y

Dirty Harry

Thanks Rich, would you happen to know where they got the status bar icons too?

Richard

I have no idea lol. Sorry for the late ass reply tho haha. I believe that user is still on iOS 6 unless there’s a way on iOS 7. I see Notifier is being used…that’s the envelope notification you see up top.

Vic Damone

This CRUSHES jaku freaking amazing!!!

Daniel Beecham

Surenix Theme it’s coming tomorrow!!!!

Sachmach29

ayeris.

Gabriel

Next week I would like to see a review of this theme
(Took this picture from Reddit)

MrJohnBlaze

im using the nux ios7 theme and nuxlockscreen

John Doe

Can I ask you, your icons are circular. If you don’t have reduce motion turned on (i.e. normal animations), when you open an app, does the circle icon turn into the usual square during the animation while it is opening? Pls let me know, I have this problem and I can’t figure out whats wrong for the life of me.

MrJohnBlaze

when it zooms back out it goes square the circle but its for a fraction of a 2nd it doesnt bother me

John Doe

I finally found out what the issue was. Try installing IconBundles – look it up on cydia’s bigboss repo. I have no clue why winter board isn’t bundled with this, but it stopped that ugly square appearing.